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Radio 4,07 Apr 2024,2 mins

The Abbey Church in Selby, North Yorkshire

Bells on Sunday

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Bells on Sunday, comes from the Abbey Church in Selby, North Yorkshire. The earliest record of bells at the abbey was of four bells in 1619. In the restoration following a disastrous fire in 1906 that gutted the entire Abbey a new ring of ten bells by John Taylor of Loughborough were installed. These bells were augmented to a ring of twelve for the millennium. The Tenor bell weighs twenty five and a half hundredweight and is tuned to the note of D. We hear them ringing Cambridge Surprise Maximus

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